Editing photos uploaded to the web

First off, It sounds like you plan to upload pictures and use that as your means of storage. I wouldn't recommend this on the sites you've just mentioned because they store really small versions of the original picture. If you later decide to print these pictures, you will be limited by the fact that the web sites you've just loaded them to have shrunk them to an tiny fraction of the dimensions they originally were.

As far as cropping and what not, Picasa should allow you to crop and do what you want. Look at the following post for some guidelines that are similar to your needs:

Picasa Panorama Cropping

Cheers,

Mike T. Reply to this

Thanks John, I didn't know they were stored at original size. Is there a limit to how many you can store? Can you choose whether they are seen by the public or not? Is there any potential for copyright problems? Reply to this

Just tried Flickr and it´s very very slow to upload.. maybe it´s the pc speed here but it certainly takes a while to edit one photo and even to rotate it. I can see another day wasted in an internet cafe! How does everyone else do this?? Cheers Reply to this

There are 2 types of account you can have with Flickr - a free one and a "professional" one ($25 per year when I got mine last December). Both have unlimited uploads and all your photos are stored at the original size. The free one has various limitations, one of which is that you can not download your photos at the original size, i.e. they´re stored at the original size but you can only access them at a reduced size. However hand over your $25 to upgrade to professional and you then have access to the originals. You can choose various levels of privacy for each photo, from public to only certain specified Flickr account holders to only yourself. For public ones, there is definite potential for your photos to be "stolen" though anyone who is majorly concerned about such a thing would either not be putting them on Flickr in the first place or would watermark them.

Obviously one massive limitation with using Flickr as a backup service is that you need to find fast connections that can deal with uploading a large wodge of pictures at their original size. This hasn´t been a problem for me this year because, like TeamTurner, I´ve been carrying my laptop as well as finding free wifi in either hostels or cafes. In previous years I´ve had to go the DVD-burning route for backups and, for Travelblog, haven´t even considered any photo editing other than rotation. If you don´t have a laptop and are only finding slow connections, it might be an idea to ditch any thoughts of cropping etc, simply identify the shots that you want to upload, reduce them in size to about a tenth (there´s at least one thread on here about software that can do this for you), then upload them. I used this approach in my pre-laptop-carrying days and it usually worked well, even off the beaten track where decent connections were rare. Travelblog (and, I think, Facebook) have options for rotation. Reply to this

hi everyone.. I got it sorted and Picasa did the trick. if not a little time consuming! Reply to this